To recognize all who contributed to this history would require an additional chapter, so I cannot attempt to mention everyone. Not being included should in no way be taken to mean that I am not aware of our debt to you.
The manuscript was edited and re-edited by my wife, Anne Williams, and by Beth Nelson, Marion Blackburn and Robin Whaley. Dave McRae and Dr. Edwin W. Monroe read it with an eye for factual accuracy. Beth Nelson coordinated the project. Marion Blackburn wrote the personality vignettes.

Debi Crotts conducted extensive research to locate, gather and identify the photographs that brought this pictorial history to life.

Preparatory to including in the William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library the archival materials on which this account is based, Ruth Moskop reviewed them.

The major source for information has been an exhaustive collection of newspaper clippings, particularly those from the Daily Reflector, which Billy Jean Trevathan has been putting together for many years. Other important sources have been the archives and publications of the Office of News and Information, University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina. Special thanks to Tom Fortner, director; and to staff members Doug Boyd, Jeannine Hutson, Jane Martin, Betsy Seidel, Laura Thomas, Cliff Hollis and Catherine Spruill. Thanks also to Deborah Cain of the Marketing Department.

Roger Kammerer’s files of newspapers and other sources dating to the turn of the century have been priceless. The North Carolina Collection and other archives at the J.Y. Joyner Library at ECU provided valuable information, for which I especially wish to thank Sue Ellen Lathrop and Maurice C. York.

I have consulted the pertinent minutes of the hospital Board of Trustees to check newspapers and other accounts, as well as budget documents, annual reports of the hospital and correspondence where available.
Considering the purposes for which this pictorial history is intended, and the fact that the materials on which it is based are not generally accessible, I have taken an unconventional approach to the question of sources. Rather than including a bibliography that would be virtually useless except where the actual source materials are kept, I have deposited copies of the documents I used in the history collection of the Laupus Library. They are catalogued and stored in chronological order like the text. Additional materials on establishing the Regional Rehabilitation Center are available in the archives of the ECU School of Allied Health Sciences.

We have interviewed as many people as time and opportunity permitted. We would have preferred to talk to everyone still available, but our publication deadline precluded that. As it was, more than 25 people made themselves available. Recordings and transcriptions of interviews conducted by Beth Nelson, Marion Blackburn, John Stillerman and Ruth Moskop are available at the Laupus Library. We are grateful to Dr. Andrew Best for sharing information from his personal archives.

Special thanks to Sally Lucido and Beth Sigmon.